Wednesday, June 13, 2012

A team of Iranian archaeologists has recently discovered 20 meters of a canal of the sewage system of Persepolis
in southern Iran. The team led by Ali Asadi has been commissioned to
carry out excavations of the sewage system to discover how the system
worked during the Achaemenid era, the Persian service of CHN reported on Tuesday.

The sewage system is located in the southwest of the Achaemenid city near the city of Shiraz.
The team dug down about five meters to reach the canal, Asadi said.
A number of stone bas-reliefs have also been discovered during the excavations, he added.
Asadi said that the sewage system branches off into many canals, which extend to the south and then turn to the east.